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	'title' => 'CARK, a lost video, and Discover',
	'body' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2016/10/24.jpg" alt="CARK by The Marc With a C Trio" class="weblog-header-image" width="817" height="480" />
<p>
	Current countdowns:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>249 scheme-specific $a[URI]-parsing classes to write and add to <a href="https://git.vola7ileiax4ueow.onion/y.st./include.d/releases">include.d</a></li>
	<li>1 free elective left in my associate degree program</li>
	<li>4 free electives left in my bachelor degree program</li>
</ul>
<p>
	Website cleanup tasks left to accomplish:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Remove numeric $a[XHTML] entities; these pages are written in Unicode, non-$a[ASCII] characters can be used directly.</li>
<li>Find and tag any references to $a[XHTML] tags in my journal pages.</li>
<li>Find and tag any references to functions, classes, and constants that can be <code>grep</code>ed for; look for backslashes and empty parentheses.</li>
<li>Find and clean up references to <code>/domain_research/</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p>
	It looks like the $a[WVGA] setting on my mobile&apos;s camera is just what I need.
</p>
<p>
	I read all the assigned reading material for the week, aside from the one resource that maliciously denies access to $a[Tor] users, then took the two ungraded quizzes.
	I responded to students on the <span title="Globalization">POLS 1503</span> discussion board, but I&apos;m still only one of three students that has submitted an initial post on the <span title="Online Education Strategies">UNIV 1001</span> discussion board.
	Until three students besides myself have responded, I can&apos;t complete the assignment.
	I would have submitted what I could today, but stupid decisions earlier in the week have left me in a bit of a time crunch.
	Instead, I worked on my &quot;learning journal&quot; assignments.
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
	The spread of disease and bad politics are some of the worst things that globalization have to offer.
	Both could be eliminated (or at least drastically reduced) if people actually put in the effort to change things.
</p>
<p>
	I agree, a public health system could do a lot of good, and actually involving the citizens in political decision-making such as deciding whether or not to accept loans from international financial institutions given their attached conditions would do wonders.
	Too often, the people agreeing to deals aren&apos;t the ones that are actually affected by them.
</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>
	Corporate greed and environmental contamination have both gotten out of control.
	Something must be done to curtail them.
</p>
<p>
	Taxing the deforesters and using that money to pay people to replant is a very interesting idea.
	It would both offset deforestation and create new job opportunities.
	That could be a good way to bring some money into the country.
</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>
	That&apos;s a good point.
	The location in which you were raised will have a huge impact on your view of globalization.
</p>
<p>
	Monetary gain does seem to be the only thing that many corporate leaders seem to think about.
	Instead of trying to improve the world while still making a large profit, they harm vast populations just to push their bottom line to new heights.
	We really need to pass some laws to try to prevent this, but instead, the government (at least here in the United State) is a puppet to big business.
	It&apos;s really sad, but there&apos;s got to be a way to make the government work for the people again instead of the wealthiest companies.
	The international financial institution, like all governmental organization, could certainly use more oversight.
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
	I was planning on writing up my <span title="Globalization">POLS 1503</span> assignment for the week to be about the spread of copyright and/or patent laws.
	The assignment is supposed to be about a negative consequence of globalization, so it would be a perfect fit.
	However, this assignment isn&apos;t a full-length paper, no students will be exposed to it, the professor has already seen my views on copyright and patent law, and I&apos;m short on time.
	I sort of wasted three days, and now it&apos;s coming back to bite me.
	Instead, I&apos;m writing more generally about corporate greed and the harm that it brings to the world, especially when globalization has spread its effect to more places.
</p>
<p>
	My copy of CARK by The Marc With a C Trio arrived today! It says that it&apos;s <q>under Creative Common (sic) license</q>, though it doesn&apos;t specify which one.
	I&apos;ve only seen <a href="https://marcwithac.bandcamp.com/">Marc</a> release under two licenses through, {$a['CC BY 3.0']} and {$a['CC BY-SA 3.0']} though; the latter being the license of choice for their last three, probably last five (I&apos;m not completely sure on the order of release), albums released on Bandcamp.
	As such, I&apos;m going to assume that that&apos;s the license that applies.
	This cassette has some of my favorites on it, such as The Bitter Half, No London In Brazil, and I Will Repossess Your Heart, but also has ten songs that I don&apos;t recognize the titles of.
	The promised download code that came with the tape allowed me to add it to my mobile, and it was interesting hearing the new composition of old songs.
	I&apos;ll have to listen to the full album later when time allows.
	Marc also included three stickers! I&apos;m not sure what to do with them yet though.
	The problem is that if I use them, that&apos;s it.
	I can&apos;t use them again.
	Likewise though, if I don&apos;t use them, there&apos;s no point in having them.
	I could put one on my laptop, but my laptops die on me eventually.
	I could put one on my mobile device, but it&apos;d be handled too much and would deteriorate.
	I&apos;ll probably stash them with my vinyl records, $a[CD]s, and new cassette for now, then decide how best to use them when my life&apos;s more stable.
</p>
<p>
	I let my mother know of my plans to walk to the laundromat every two days if I get the pizza job back.
	If I didn&apos;t, they&apos;d no doubt try to hold it against me, despite it not being their issue to deal with.
	There&apos;s no good way to make reporting that I&apos;ll need to go to the laundromat every two days not sound like a complaint, but I managed to spin it in a &quot;I can be of service to you&quot; sort of way.
	Honestly, two days worth of clothing do not make a full laundry load.
	I might as well take the rest of my family&apos;s laundry with me when I go as well, so I told my mother that if we could find a central location to put family laundry, I&apos;d wash it with my own.
</p>
<p>
	A while ago, Glitched Puppet, the main artist and storyteller of <a href="http://floraverse.com./">Floraverse</a>, removed a video that they&apos;d previously published that was relevant to Jupet&apos;s back story.
	No explanation was given, and there was no sign on the website that the video had ever existed.
	At the time that the video had been published, I&apos;d been having troubles with YouTube, the host used for the video, so I&apos;d had to use a download website to retrieve the video to watch locally.
	I never deleted my local copy, oddly enough, though I&apos;d deleted my copies of all the other Floraverse videos after having watched them.
	Later, someone mentioned the deleted video and that they were disappointed that it was gone, so I provided a link to the video on my own website.
	Glitched Puppet deleted my post and link, asking that I not post it on the Floraverse website again.
	Today, someone accused Glitched Puppet of not listening to criticism, so Glitched Puppet brought up that they once deleted a video that took them forty hours to produce because of some thoughtful criticism against it.
	I asked if this video was the video that I&apos;d seen disappear, and it seems that it was.
	Apparently, the video had made use of stereotypes in an offensive way, which was why it had to go.
	It&apos;s still sad to see it lost, but at least now I understand why a bit better.
	I had thought that Glitched Puppet had just decided to take the story in a different direction.
</p>
<p>
	Discover wrote to me today, saying that despite the fact that my old domain registrar&apos;s time to challenge my dispute is over, they&apos;ve decided to settle the matter in my old domain registrar&apos;s favor.
	Lovely.
	How do I get them to stop charging me!? I wrote to Discover to try again to get this fixed:
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
	[REDACTED] is refusing to stop charging my Discover card.
	I tried to dispute their last charge to get them to knock it off, but Discover settled the issue in [REDACTED]&apos;s favor.
</p>
<p>
	How do I revoke [REDACTED]&apos;s authorization to post further charges to my Discover card? If you won&apos;t fix past charges, that&apos;s the price that I pay for not having kept a closer eye on my credit card bill.
	However, *I NEED FUTURE CHARGES FROM [REDACTED] TO STOP*.
	I am paying a yearly fee for three [REDACTED] domains that I can&apos;t even access due to a lost password.
	I can&apos;t afford to keep paying for domains that will never again serve a purpose.
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
	Last time that I asked about revoking my old domain registrar&apos;s authorization to charge my card, I was told that the dispute would settle the issue.
	Seeing as it clearly hasn&apos;t, it&apos;s time to try to get a straight answer from Discover.
	My old registrar can&apos;t continue charging my card if I close my Discover account.
	While I don&apos;t want to do that, I&apos;ll sooner close my Discover account than keep paying for domains that I can&apos;t even modify the $a[DNS] records of.
	I&apos;ll also certainly close the account ahead of having the extra identification document created that the domain registrar wants.
	It&apos;s not even the fact that refusing to create the new identity document is more important than the Discover card, though that certainly is the case; it&apos;s that a card that doesn&apos;t allow me prevent continual charges to is a noxious card and needs to be canceled.
</p>
<p>
	My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
</p>
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